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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2008
Applicant:
Izumi Kinoshita, Hyogo, JP;
Inventor:
Izumi Kinoshita, Hyogo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 27/00 (2006.01); B41J 2/435 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a light source, a polygon mirror, and a plurality of photosensitive elements. The polygon mirror has a plurality of reflection surfaces that reflect a light beam at different angles. The light beams deflected by the reflection surfaces travel along different optical paths and impinge on different photosensitive elements. A light-beam control unit controls emission of the light beam from the light source depending on a distance between the deflecting unit and the photosensitive elements thereby performing an fθ correction of the light beam.